Plotting Saffron Tongues and DIY Change, 2018

marker pen, 20 x 29 cm

Inspired by a heart shaped tradesmen token discovered in Museum of Croydon archives and the “highstreet” narratives of Croydon. Plotting Saffron Tongues and DIY Change is a sort of pattern, a pastiche of diagram, that plots the low value currency of a DIY currency against the high value spice saffron ( coincidentally also historically traded in Croydon area). Borrowing from symbolism heavy forms such as Dutch wax print cloth and diagrammatic imagery, the pattern contemplates ideas of trade, value and possession.